Thank you very much.
Thanks for all the comments. I started out thinking that we weren't going to get very far, and I think we are coming to an end.
I as well have been here for almost two years. I think we need to think about the impacts of various decisions that will come. I don't disagree on taking into account what Justice Mosley has said, but I also want to remind you about what we have to work with. Justice Mosley's report is 190 pages and Rouleau's report is 2,000-plus pages. As Senator Carignan rightly commented on, a number of briefs aren't translated.
We as a committee have had 26 meetings so far. We've heard from 66 witnesses ourselves. We've spent multiple meetings drafting a report and recommendations that I would have thought we were getting near the end of. We were certainly beyond the halfway mark, to say the least. I think the work we've done around recommendations is actually very good and won't necessarily change, or some of them won't, but we have to look at it through the lens of a new perspective, which is Justice Mosley. I have no problem with that.
I really like the comments of my colleague and co-chair Mr. Green. As I look it, I would ask the question around legal opinions, because we've asked for these already and not gotten them. We will have two ministers here, one of them who will be the Attorney General of Canada. In our questions, we can ask him if he will produce those legal opinions.
My point is this, Mr. Brock. We've asked for this already and been turned down, so we're asking again. We'll have a justice minister here who can answer the question yet again. I don't think his answer and the reply that we get will be any different. That's the only question I raise around those legal opinions. I think it's something that we may want to ask ourselves, on whether or not we're going through another exercise for naught.
The only other point I wanted to make is with respect to the reference to other witnesses in the motion put forward by my colleagues from the Conservatives. For me, it's so far open; like Senator Harder, I feel that without knowing what that looks like, it seems like it's an endless exercise.
I want to reiterate that I think what I'm hearing from everybody around the table is that we want to figure out how we take all the information and all the work we've done over the 26 meetings, and all the material we have that we can work with, and continue working on our report recommendations in a way that introduces the new information around Justice Mosley's report and try to figure out how best to come to conclusions that are valuable for Canadians.
Thank you.